The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-20
NEWS OF H WE Elk

"A dispatch o Franklin, Loui
siana, says the body Of Jane Collins. &
colored girl, was found in the thickei
on the plantation Of Joseph Brig, witt
her throat cut. Her stepfather. DAME,
Peasants. confessed that lie was the
murderer, and asked to be hanged al
once. The crowd granted his request
and hanged him 10 the Iafters of a cane
shed.
The number of killed by the rail
road disaster at Chatsworth, Illinois.
on the evening of the 10th Is still I'M
certain. A list furnished on the 18th
places it at n hundred and ffty-six.
1t is said that the railroad officials
alone can fix it. Newspaper cores
pondents cannot get a complete list, as
a number of the killed and injured
were removed from Chatsworth before
they arrived. Railroad officials say
there were about six hundred persons
in the train, and that it was going at
the rate of about 35 miles an hour,
One of the first physicians at the wreck
said that one cause of so many deaths
was lack of ambulances or proper
means for moving the injured.
The cashier of a Montreal, canada
bank is on an excursion to Boston.
His shortage" is stated at Sl2, 000.
The loss by the FIRE in Pittsburg on
the evening of The 18th has been placed
at less than $500 900, and the total
insurance $685. 00. Investigation
showed that the fire originated in the
carpet store Of IL. Holman, located
in the cellar Of the Masonic building,
and underneath the dry goods store of
Campbell & Dick. 1t is said that a
small party were sitting in the uphol-
STEERING department of HalZman's es-
adjustment, when one of the number
lighted a cigar and thoughtlessly threw
the match into the waste-paper basket.
In a few seconds the entire room was
ablaZe, and efforts to extinguish 1t
were unsuccessful. The saw mill of
Jackson 81 Smith, in Tonawanda, New
York, was burned OF the morning of the
18th. Its.was set on fire by Incendiaries.
Loss $50, 900; insurance, $4,000. The
Palm Roller Flour Mill at East
Greenville, Penna., operated by Krauss
Brothers 81 Reichert, was burned on
the 18th. Loss, $50, COG. The Purdy
House, in Warsaw. New York, and
some adjoining property was burned
on the 18th, causing a loss of $50, 900.
The wareroom of the Hydraulic
Press Company, of Mt. Gllead, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, $50, 600; insurance, $40, 500. Fire
on the evening of the 18th destroyed
the lime and cement works at Marble.
head, illinois, belonging to the Chicago
Lumber Company. Loss, sos, 600. The
Post-ofice was in the building, and all
mail matter, stamps and S6S in money
were burned.
The BODY of a ~two-year-old child
John Mahinsky, a laborer in Pittsburg,
was devoured by flames in its coffin on
the 14th. A number of candles were
burning about the coffin. Several chill
dren were in the room, and one Of them
accidentally upset of the candles.
The lace in the coffin took fire and the
remains of the child were burnt to a
crisp.
A despatch from Pittsburg says
twenty-thTee persons have been pois-
oned by eating custard cake. purchased
at the grocery store of l.. J, Logue.
The grocer says he purchased the cake
at a baker shop in the East end.
An attempt at tram wrecking on
the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad, ten miles west of Nebraska
City, Nebraska, vas made on the
evening of the 18th. AS a passenger
train was crossing a trestle bringe
over a deep ~ravine, the woodwork was
discovered to be on fire. An inyestiga-
ton disclosed the fact that the string
ers and braces were entirely consumed.
The train was usually light, which pre-
vented a catastrophe.
Frank Shuck, a young man of
Lancaster, Pa, vas struck and in
stantly killed by a freight train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Leaman
Place, on the evening of the 18th.
"A despatch from Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, says: Senator Eddy,
who returned on the 14th from White
river, met a party of sixty bucks on the
evening of the 18th, who were evidently
u JltlR W JUN SOlOlOWs AObbSA
has also sent a runner to his brother
at the Uncompahgre Agency, asking
for assistance, aud will probably get
fifty or sixty bucks ( rom there. Tue
fact that no courier has reached Glen
wood Springs from Meeker since the
18th, leads the people to believe that
the redskins are holding the roads be-
tween those points. Considerable APP
prehension Is felt for the settlers
Meeker who failed to reach
town before the trouble began.
"A despatch from Oswego, New
York, says a disease said to be Texas
fever has broken out among the cattle
in that height orh0od. Ten days ago
j. G. Rowe got a herd of % cows from
Jefferson county TO butcher for market.
Seven were killed and sold when 1t was
discovered that the others had Texas
fever. Ten died and the others were
The cattle got the disease from
a pasture where a carload of Texas
were received two months ago.
In the yacht race, on the 18th,
from Cottage City, Massachusetts, for
DiCltph , lhCClS iOA lac NhPb phtiNo ~
the citizens Of Providence. the Nolun-
teer won. The Puritan crossed the line
IL minutes behind the Volunteer. and
the Mayhower was third.
William Montgomery. a negro
boy, 8 years old, living in Lancaster
South Carolina, on the l4sh
shot and instantly killed Alice Huey.
a colored playmate, aged II, and Sc
wounded his sister LIZZIE,
about the same age, with a shotgun.
''He claims that 1t was accidental,
but the circumstances point to wlllful
The body of Luke Mcnamara, %
years old, a ha1er, was found on the
raj road track at Atlanta, Georgia, on
The 14th, horribly mutilated. 1t Is
he was killed and robbed, and
hen placed on the track. Two ne
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